Christmas vacation is here! I'm sitting on a couch, in front of the fire, sipping hot cider, and reading The Complete Sherlock Holmes. Mom's working on the Christmas Jigsaw Puzzle, and dad's reading the paper. As I mentioned in the last post, I posted my students' grades, and have already received some angry emails from some of those who didn't pass. I'll worry about them once the new semester arrives -- now's my Christmas break!
Last week North Georgia got hit with an ice storm that knocked out the power to over 100,000 people. That included most residents of my town, for at least one day, in some cases two or three. We only lost power for about eight hours, but others weren't so lucky. (A friend related how her family had a little "camp out" in the living room that night in front of their fire.) My mom and I decided to go Christmas shopping in Anderson, South Carolina to pass the day, but when we got there, they didn't have power, either. The mall was closed and Target was running on generators. (Fortunately, I got my Christmas shopping done last month.)
Wednesday, I took my mom and dad to see The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. It was the first time my dad had been to a movie since my age was a single digit (about 20 years). He liked the movie, but seemed annoyed that they had changed some things from the book. ("The fight scene was too long!" he said. "And I just read the book last week, and don't remember anything about that stuff on the ice.") My mom hadn't read the book, but she liked it a lot. I was very pleased with the movie, but then again, when Hollywood gets its hands on a property I like, I don't have very high hopes. As long as this movie was better than the old animated movie, I would have been happy. It was much better than I had hoped, though. I thought the child actors did a great job (especially little Georgie Henley), and something I was very concerned about going into the movie -- the voice of Aslan -- was done very well by Liam Neeson. All in all, I was very satisfied.
Last week North Georgia got hit with an ice storm that knocked out the power to over 100,000 people. That included most residents of my town, for at least one day, in some cases two or three. We only lost power for about eight hours, but others weren't so lucky. (A friend related how her family had a little "camp out" in the living room that night in front of their fire.) My mom and I decided to go Christmas shopping in Anderson, South Carolina to pass the day, but when we got there, they didn't have power, either. The mall was closed and Target was running on generators. (Fortunately, I got my Christmas shopping done last month.)
Wednesday, I took my mom and dad to see The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. It was the first time my dad had been to a movie since my age was a single digit (about 20 years). He liked the movie, but seemed annoyed that they had changed some things from the book. ("The fight scene was too long!" he said. "And I just read the book last week, and don't remember anything about that stuff on the ice.") My mom hadn't read the book, but she liked it a lot. I was very pleased with the movie, but then again, when Hollywood gets its hands on a property I like, I don't have very high hopes. As long as this movie was better than the old animated movie, I would have been happy. It was much better than I had hoped, though. I thought the child actors did a great job (especially little Georgie Henley), and something I was very concerned about going into the movie -- the voice of Aslan -- was done very well by Liam Neeson. All in all, I was very satisfied.
posted by Mark at 12/18/2005 08:58:00 PM
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